Silver Key’s Bountiful Bags Food Drive collects Thanksgiving food for seniors throughout October
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Silver Key Senior Services needs your help to make a wonderful Thanksgiving for local seniors.
The organization's Bountiful Bags for Thanksgiving Food Drive collects Thanksgiving food for their food pantry throughout the month of October and has done so for 26 years.
This year, Silver Key's goal is to fill 1,300 bags will all the trimmings for a memorable Thanksgiving meal for their seniors and their families.
According to Silver Key, each month, more than 1,300 seniors visit them and utilize their food pantry. Without the community's support, many of these seniors would not have a Thanksgiving meal.
Items needed include,
Cranberry Sauce: Whole Berry or Jellied, 14 or 16 oz. cans
Dessert Dry Mix (cookie, brownie, muffin mix, etc)
Green Beans: 14.5 oz. cans
Instant Mashed Potatoes
Dry Stuffing/Dressing, 6 oz. boxes
Gravy Dry-Mix: 0.87 (7/8) oz. packets
Cream of Mushroom Soup 10.5 oz cans
Yams/Sweet Potatoes: 29 oz. cans
Food donations can be dropped off at any of the following locations until November 1.
• Silver Key Campus, 1605 S. Murray Blvd., Monday-Friday, 9 am - 4 pm.
• The Promenade Shops at Briargate, 1885 Briargate Parkway, Suite 503 (Drop off your donation
at The Management Office, between Pottery Barn and Paper Source), Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pm
• Scheels: 1226 Interquest Pkwy (Donations welcome during hours of operation, see customer
service desk)
• King Soopers - 3250 Centennial Blvd. Donations welcome during normal business hours.
• King Soopers Ridgeview Marketplace: 6030 Stetson Hills Blvd. Donations welcome during
normal business hours.
• King Soopers Marketplace at Briargate: 9225 N Union Blvd. Donations welcome during normal
business hours.
If you don't have time to shop, a $25 donation can help Silver Key provide a full Thanksgiving meal to a family.
Financial donations can be mailed or dropped off at 1625 S. Murray Blvd. or easily made online at
www.silverkey.org/donate. To make a donation over the phone, call 719-884-2300.
For more information on Silver Key, visit www.silverkey.org.
